We are an international organization which helps animals, particularly farmed animals, as effectively as possible. To help us achieve our goal we use scientific evidence, careful reasoning and decades of experience.
We are impact oriented and use a wide array of tools to make the world a better place. Our current toolkit includes:
groundbreaking global investigations which expose animal suffering hidden behind the walls of factory farms,
negotiations with companies to make them ban the most cruel practices,
advocacy to secure legal milestones for animals,
influencing markets to introduce animal-friendly approaches,
in addition to this, we work to strengthen the capacity of the animal advocacy movement.
Anima International Organizational Updates
We’re hiring in France – final days to apply
We’re looking for three people to join our team in France as a:
Team Member (generalist)
Communications Manager
Campaigns Manager
All roles are remote, 40h/week. Must be based in France. Working languages: French and English. Applications deadline – Sunday, 19 July (inclusive)
Learn more and applyUpdate on our UK chicken welfare campaign
As we reported last month, we launched one of our biggest and most ambitious campaigns to date, targeting the UK sandwich chain Pret A Manger, after it broke its 2018 commitment to stop selling fast-growing chickens by 2026. Instead of working with us to take concrete steps towards this goal, Pret has pushed the deadline to 2032 with no interim steps until 2031, leading us to conclude that it had no intention of delivering on the commitment.
The initial campaign activity has centred on a giant animatronic “Frankenwrap” sculpture – a car-sized frankenchicken replica stuffed inside a Pret wrap. The actions have gone viral as we continue to tour Pret cafes in London reaching out to the public. Alongside newspaper ads, celebrity endorsement, and ads on the London Underground courtesy of Project Slingshot, the campaign has amassed around 20M social media views, viral Reddit posts, and over 150 media appearances including The Times, The Guardian’s Photo Of The Day, and LBC Radio.
Four weeks in, 70k people have signed our pledge to “take a break from Pret” until it produces a credible plan to phase out fast-growing chickens bred to suffer.
EU animal welfare policy: 5 years since the EU pledge to ban cages, new Livestock Strategy released.
On June 30th, Anima International on behalf of the End the Cage Age coalition staged a visual action outside the European Commission building in Brussels to mark exactly five years since the Commission’s public commitment to proposing EU-wide legislation banning cages for farmed animals.
Alongside the animal advocacy groups gathered at the event, seven MEPs from six member countries attended and spoke in support. The action was also noticed by the Health and Animal Welfare Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, as well as the Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen.
Since the action, the EC has released a new Livestock Strategy, which outlines the timeline for proposing new animal welfare legislation:
end of 2026: phasing-out of cages for egg-laying hens, ending the systematic killing of male chicks and equivalent import requirements
Q1 of 2027: transition from crates to pen systems for pig farming
The legislation, when introduced, will improve the lives of around 160 million animals confined in cages, and prevent the suffering of around 330 million day-old chicks per year in the EU alone.